How do I make money on Steam?

[pusta]

I have about 160 USD on Steam, give me tips.
What items should I buy to resell? Or is there some other way to "invest" money on Steam? I don't mind being in the long term, I just do not want to leave that money stuck.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It is hard to make money on Steam itself.

You should probably just buy games with that money.

[☆ƧQυiяяєL♫]

To my knowledge, there is no option for Steam users to "cash out" and since Valve is not listed on any exchanges (as of this date 7/2018) there are no publicly-trading shareholders options too.


The people that come to my mind, who can "cash out" are employees and other invested sundry characters of Valve who take their piece of the Valve profit pie. Also game devs and various publishers sell their wares on Steam and "make money" there.

There are third-party non-Valve and non-Steam websites that make claims but you might as well go to your nearest reputable casino with a far better chance to "make money" there.


I have a tip: You can download and play Team Fortress 2 and hope you get the "golden frying pan" drop, if you do get it, you can sell that item on the Steam market but the "money" stays on Steam.
Quite possibly you might even find a buyer offering you money outside of Steam, via an online transfer or something, this is where this type of non-Steam transaction gets typical as you'll see many complaint threads posted on this board, e.g., "someone stole my item" and/or "someone took my money"

My suggestion, you can apply for a job at Valve and/or become a dev/publisher/filmmaker/something-sellable to offer your goods and/or services through the Steam Store and see what happens, you could: profit, and/or fade into mediocrity, and/or get removed for ill-gotten gains.

And if.
If Valve becomes listed on the Nasdaq or somewherez, you can buy a couple lots of preferred stock with a margin account

[Shrek]

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I have about 160 USD on Steam, give me tips.
What items should I buy to resell? Or is there some other way to "invest" money on Steam? I don't mind being in the long term, I just do not want to leave that money stuck.

you know you can buy some csgo/others games skins and hope to make money on it but I don't think there really are some way to make money

[Hawtpockets]

A couple of years ago i made a good amount by buying things for cheap in bulk and selling them for the than current market minimum - €0.01 to be able to sell it right away, but the market waiting time and buy queue has patched this. The money i made with this went to crafting badges during sales so i would get extra item drops, backgrounds and holiday cards which i later converted to gems. Those gems went into the blender to make booster packs, i would either sell these for then a nice amount since i used obscure titles as NOTCH and something else i cant remember. The other part of the profit went into buying CS:GO skins, this was where i lost pretty much al my investments. Bought two golden deagles for €25,- held on to them for about a year until they where worth around 4X that then sold one for a hefty sum of key's but wasted them all on opening cases with little to no net worth. And all of the other skins i bought on the marketplace where wrong investments...

There where allot of other means to make money but Steam patched pretty much everything since back then you could use homebrew bots to instantly buy stuff on the market in bulk. (bought some nice skins people accidentally put on the market for a couple of cents while they where worth allot.

[PiKa]

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[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Buying items and selling them is not easy to get into and those that are doing it are not going to just tell you how to do it since it would hurt their bottom line with more and more people doing it.

If you want to try and make some money make content for games with the Steam work shop and get your stuff added into a game.

[pusta]

To be honest, I don't want to make a lot of money, I just wanted to buy something that will valorize in the future so the inflation doesn't erode my money when I eventually buy some game or skin, something that will take a while since I'm still playing in a toaster. I didn't make this clear in my question. Thank you guys.
(Sorry for any writing error, english is not my main lang)

[Phantom]

The first step is investment.

You're already on the right mindset.

Making a profit isn't going to be as simple as you'd think.

There are active listings and may not be profitable for you to list your items at that same price.

It's a dreary business on its own.

You'll have to actively see what others are doing in order to gain a profit.

They won't share that information for the most part.

[雑•Nubi]

Just don't try to scam people

[pusta]

I never considered doing anything illegal involving money in my entire life. Thanks for your advice.